4 Descriptive Statistics

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4.1 School Type

As revealed by Figure 4.1, the proportion of schools in each category is consistent across the all years. Faith-Related and Health Professional schools each account for approximately \(1/3\) of the all the schools. This is an interesting pattern due to the rise in technology-based schools. It is possible they were classified rather as research-based schools or have not been included in the Department of Educations data.

Figure 4.1: School Distribution

4.2 Earnings Variable

Figure 4.2: Percentiles of Earnings

Figure 4.3: Standard Deviation of Earnigns

4.3 Cost Variable

Figure 4.4: Tuition Over the Years

Figure 4.5: Cost Over the Years

4.4 Relationship Between Earnings and Cost

Figure 4.6: Institution Cost to Earnings

Figure 4.7: Yearly Cost to Earnings